Tax Aware
Lot Layering: The New Frontier for Hedge Fund Partnership Allocations
October 11, 2019
Despite its unavoidable deficiency caused by current regulations, we believe that lot layering aligns tax and economics more closely than any of the “aggregation” methods presently used by most hedge funds.
ESG Investing
Responsible Investing: The ESG-Efficient Frontier
October 10, 2019
Combining several large data sets, we compute the empirical ESG-efficient frontier and show the costs and benefits of responsible investing.
Market Risk and Efficiency
Economics with Market Liquidity Risk
September 19, 2019
We discuss the effects of market liquidity risk on asset pricing, investment management, corporate finance, banking, financial crises, macroeconomics, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and other economic areas.
Working Paper
Risk Parity Is Not Short Volatility (Not That There's Anything Wrong with Short Volatility)
August 21, 2019
Are risk parity strategies hiding an implicit short volatility? To find out, we simulated stylized versions of three asset-class (equity, fixed income, and commodities) risk parity and short volatility strategies, and we compared the trading behavior and returns of each.
Factor/Style Investing
Factor Premia and Factor Timing: A Century of Evidence
July 2, 2019
We examine four prominent factor premia – value, momentum, carry, and defensive – over a century from six asset classes. The results offer support for time-varying risk premia models with important implications for theory seeking to explain the sources of factor returns.
Fixed Income
Looking Under the Hood of Active Credit Managers
July 1, 2019
We find that credit long/short managers tend to have high passive exposure to the credit risk premium. In contrast, we find that high-yield-focused long-only managers provide less exposure to the credit risk premium than their respective benchmarks.
Tax Aware
Should Taxable Investors Shun Dividends?
June 13, 2019
We evaluate the tax benefit of dividend avoidance for quantitative multi-style strategies and find that dividend avoidance generally reduces implementation efficiency, thus lowering expected pre-tax returns.
Machine Learning
Autoencoder Asset Pricing Models
May 22, 2019
We propose a new latent factor conditional asset pricing model, which delivers out-of-sample pricing errors that are far smaller (and generally insignificant) compared to other leading factor models.
ESG Investing
Hedging Climate Change News
May 22, 2019
We propose and implement a procedure to dynamically hedge climate change risk and discuss multiple directions for future research on financial approaches to managing climate risk.
Fixed Income
Give Credit Where Credit Is Due: What Explains Corporate Bond Returns?
May 17, 2019
We examine the risk and returns of U.S. corporate bond indices using a set of economically-motivated factors and find that options markets explain a great deal of credit returns.